Corruption Perceptions Index

proving them to himself satisfactorily. In this act of demolition and reconstruction, Descartes felt it would be a waste of time to tear down each idea individually. Instead, he attacked what he considered the very foundation: the idea that sense perception conveys accurate information. He developed several arguments to illustrate this point. In the Dream argument, Descartes argues that he often dreams of things that…

A lot of people think that they have complete control over their perception of reality. They think that they are aware of everything that they see and perceive. They think that they only perceive what they choose to. In reality, however, people do not have that much control. In the conscious sense, a person can control what he sees, hears, and absorbs from his surroundings. But there is a powerful faculty residing beneath a person's mind, and this system is continuously absorbing random stuff…

Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo. 2008. “Descartes’s Substance Dualism and His Independence Conception of Substance.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 46, no. 1 (2008) 69-90. In the presented article, Rodriguez-Pereyra argues that the independence conception of substance is crucial for the success of the separability argument. Rodriguez-Pereyra continued by breaking down the thesis into two aims: 1) Descartes’s independence conception is that a is a created or dependent substance if and…

Abner not only displays envy and hatred towards minorities, but whenever the verdict is displeasing and not in his own favor, he decides to burn down his opponent’s farms, risking his own family’s safety for his own selfishness. This impairs the perception of society as an entity by presenting the lower class as being arrogant and distrustful towards the upper-class, especially when Abner tells the black man to "get out my way, nigger" and purposefully ruins their rug. Abner not only disappoints…

What is Reality? We are all unique. We all have our own way of thinking, seeing things and interpreting them. Not one person sees things the same way you do. We may agree on some things but that does not mean we see it the same way. Therefore, I believe we all have our own understanding of what reality is. In the article “Is our Universe Fake?” Lawrence talks about the three types of reality. 1. Phenomenological reality: Subjective experience, whatever we see becomes real. 2. Consensus…

Art is like a window to the mind, representing how one thinks or what one feels. In some cases, it may contain elements from one’s unconscious; elements that even they are not aware of themselves. Art has zero qualifications, allowing it to be crafted by anyone and everyone, while still containing components of its creator and provoking feelings in its spectators. (Rustin, 2008) Of the pieces involved in the Best of the Season exhibit at the Webber Gallery, Lunch With Einstein by David…

Style Blitz Assignment When racial tensions were high in America, with protesting, police brutality, and discrimination, one man decided to speak out against this racial tension. This man’s name was Martin Luther King Jr., who was an activist against racism. While in Jail in Birmingham, he wrote a letter detailing the racial tensions in the U.S and how devastating it is tot his people. In it, he describes laws that are just and laws that are unjust, conveying the message that the laws against…

Carl Hovland, a social psychologist at Yale University conducted breakthrough research regarding persuasion and social influence. During World War II, Hovland was approached by the United States Army to study the morale of the soldiers preparing to go off and fight. The nation’s president at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was concerned that the soldiers were going to lose the fight with Japan after having just defeated the German Nazis. The War Department hired Frank Capra, from Fox and Disney…

A seemingly insignificant portion of the painting suddenly became the prominent aspect of both works. Not only did the reference provide a visual connection between the two, it also thoroughly transformed my perception on the two works as a whole. At first I was under the impression that Icarus was previously a member of this lower class yet died trying to escape it, that is why his peers refused to save him. I soon realized how inaccurate my interpretation of…

In 1640 Descartes published his famous Meditations on First Philosophy through which he shared his personal reflections on the separation of physical and intellectual realities. By demonstrating the distinctions between imagination and understanding, Descartes is able to declare the mind separate from the body. Through logical deduction, Descartes makes a case for the presence of a higher, heavenly power. With new information from modern science, society contradicts his initial comprehension of…